Publications

A People's History For The Classroom — NEW!
Helps teachers introduce students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of U.S. history than is found in traditional textbooks and curricula.

Keeping the Promise?
The Debate Over Charter Schools — NEW!
This wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection of essays examines the charter school movement’s founding visions, on-the-ground realities, and untapped potential.

Rethinking Our Classrooms
Teaching for Equity and Justice -Volume 1 — NEW Edition!
This revised and expanded edition includes creative teaching ideas, reproducible handouts and lesson plans that promote values of community, justice, and equality.

Rethinking Our Classrooms: Two-Volume Set. Save 15%! — NEW Edition Set
Buy the combined set of Rethinking Our Classrooms, Volume 1 & 2 and save 15%! Packed with useful teaching ideas for kindergarten through college.

Open Minds to Equality
Open Minds to Equality is an educator’s sourcebook of activities to help students understand and change inequalities based on race, gender, class, age, language, sexual orientation, physical/mental ability, and religion.

The Line Between Us
The Line Between Us explores the history of U.S.-Mexican relations and the roots of Mexican immigration, all in the context of the global economy. And it shows how teachers can help students understand the immigrant experience and the drama of border life.

Whose Wars?
Teaching about the Iraq War and the War on Terrorism
This is the best collection available on how to teach about the war. It includes classroom-tested resources for social studies, language arts and math classes. These powerful teaching materials incorporate poetry, imaginative writing, math activities, discussion, and critical reading strategies.

Rethinking Mathematics
This unique collection of more than 30 articles shows teachers how to weave social-justice principles throughout the math curriculum, and how to integrate social-justice math into other curricular areas as well. Rethinking Mathematics presents teaching ideas, lesson plans and reflections by practicing classroom teachers and distinguished mathematics educators. This is real-world math - math that helps students analyze problems as they gain essential academic skill.

The New Teacher Book
This collection of writings and reflections — some by new teachers, others by veterans with decades of experience to share — offers practical guidance on how new teachers from kindergarten through high school can effectively navigate the school system, form rewarding professional relationships with colleagues, and connect in meaningful ways with students and families from all cultures and backgrounds.

The Promise: Brown v. Board of Education, The Civil Rights Movement, and Our Schools
This special expanded issue of Rethinking Schools magazine celebrates the courage and dedication of those who risked their lives to end the scourge of segregation, and examines where we still need to go to eliminate racial inequities in our schools and our society. Activists and scholars provide unique perspectives on the Brown decision. And classroom teachers offer teaching ideas, readings, and lessons on segregation and desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement.

Rethinking School Reform
Drawing on some of the best writing from the quarterly journal Rethinking Schools, this new collection offers a primer on a broad range of pressing issues, including school vouchers and funding, multiculturalism, standards and testing, teacher unions, bilingual education, and federal education policy.

Rethinking Globalization:
Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World
This comprehensive new book from Rethinking Schools helps teachers raise critical issues with students in grades 4 - 12 about the increasing globalization of the world's economies and infrastructures, and the many different impacts this trend has on our planet and those who live here.

Rethinking Our Classrooms, Volume 2
This all-new companion volume to the best-selling"Rethinking Our Classrooms" offers teachers hands-on ways to promote values of community, justice, and equality — while building students' academic skills.

Failing Our Kids:
Why the Testing Craze Won't Fix Our Schools
Includes more than 50 articles that provide a compelling critique of standardized tests and also outline alternative ways to assess how well our children are learning.

Reading, Writing, and Rising Up:
Teaching About Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word
This practical, inspirational book offers essays, lesson plans, and a remarkable collection of student writing, all rooted in an unwavering focus on language arts teaching for justice.

Rethinking Columbus— Expanded Second Edition!
Lesson plans, short stories and interviews which reevaluate the legacy of Columbus in North America.

Transforming Teacher Unions
How a new vision of teacher unions can support public education, teacher rights and improved student achievement.

The Real Ebonics Debate
An in-depth look at this often-misunderstood issue, and why teachers need to acknowledge and understand Ebonics in order to teach English more effectively. An insightful look at the political nature of language, and its unbreakable connections to race and class in America. Includes a complete table of contents and selected articles on-line.

Funding for Justice
A practical guide to the critical but complicated issues of school finance, and why all schools need adequate and equitable funding.

Selling Out Our Schools:
Vouchers, Markets, And The Future Of Public Education
An examination of school "vouchers" and attempts to privatize our school system. Click here for the complete table of contents and links to the full text of selected articles.

Rethinking Schools - The Journal
This quarterly educational journal provides timely analysis of policy debates and alerts teachers to innovative classroom practices.